LEWISTON – These are the results the team has been looking for.

Playing well in recent weeks has yielded only frustration for the Lewiston Maineiacs – until Wednesday.

Peter Delmas stopped 29 shots, coming 35 seconds from his first shutout of the season, and four different players scored to lead the Maineiacs to a convincing 4-1 win over the visiting Cape Breton Screaming Eagles in front of 1,650 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee.

“This is good mentally,” captain Danick Paquette said. “When you have so many losses in a row, it gets tough mentally. Today, we stepped up and played well.”

Paquette, Denis Reul, Pier-Olivier Morin and Matt Bourdeau all scored for Lewiston, which picked up its first win in five games, and appears – for now, at least – to have turned a corner.

“It gets the frustration out of us,” Bourdeau said. “We’re playing well, doing everything right and just not getting results. (Wednesday) we got results, and we’re hoping to build off that.”

Delmas was tested often early, and came within a whisker of a shutout before Joey Haddad broke it up on the Cape Breton power play in the waning minutes of the game.

“Peter made the key saves tonight for sure,” Paquette said, “and when it came time to put the puck in the net, we did that.”

Bourdeau’s goal, his third of the season, was his first since September.

“I’ve had my chances, and it’s about time I capitalize on one,” Bourdeau said.

Paquette reminded everyone in the first period just what he can do when he’s not taking penalties.

The 18-year-old captain curled from behind the net on his second shift of the game, threw a convincing head fake like he was going to pass across the crease and fired the puck five-hole past Olivier Roy for his 13th goal of the season to put his team ahead 1-0 early.

The Maineiacs’ penalty kill unit was on full display in the first period, too, as Paquette and Max Gratchev took penalties 35 seconds apart. Lewiston killed the ensuing 5-on-3 and subsequent 5-on-4, and another penalty later in the period.

“That was the turning point in the game,” Cape Breton coach Mario Durocher said. “We didn’t score on that; we had a penalty shot and a breakaway, too. Delmas played well for them.”

In between, Lewiston’s emerging power play struck for another goal on a tic-tac-toe play from Eric Gelinas to Billy Lacasse to a pinching Reul, who snuck into the low slot from the left point to fire the Maineiacs’ second goal of the game past Roy.

Lewiston dictated play in the second period from start to finish. Cape Breton thought it had scored a goal at the 6-minute mark when Haddad slipped by the Maineiacs’ defense with Lewiston on the power play. His breakaway chance appeared to beat Delmas and bounce out of the top of the net.

A video review determined that the puck hit the crossbar.

The Eagles looked sluggish, perhaps a symptom of the bus ride to Lewiston on Tuesday. Whatever the reason, the Maineiacs used their speed to their advantage, drawing four consecutive Cape Breton penalties in the middle frame.

“We weren’t skating,” Durocher said. “They outskated us, outbattled us.”

Lewiston didn’t score on any of them, but did get one of the best-looking goals of the year from Morin at 18:34 to take a 3-0 lead.

Gratchev corralled the puck at center, drove down the left and fed Morin in the slot. With a defender draped all over him, Morin dove and redirected the pass past a sliding Roy for his seventh goal of the season.

Lewiston is back on home ice Friday, when the team hosts its annual Teddy Toss night. Fans can bring new plush toys and are asked to toss them onto the ice when the Maineiacs record their first goal of the game.